International Financial Flows in the New Normal: Key Patterns (and Why We Should Care)

Matthieu Bussiere, Julia Schmidt () and Natacha Valla ()
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Natacha Valla: European Central Bank and Paris School of Economics

A chapter in International Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, 2018, pp 249-269 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter documents recent trends in international financial flows, based on a newly assembled dataset covering 40 advanced and emerging countries. Specifically, we compare the period since 2012 with the pre-crisis period and highlight three key stylized facts. First, the “Great Retrenchment” that took place during the crisis has proved very persistent, and world financial flows are now down to half their pre-crisis levels. Second, this fall can be related predominantly to advanced economies, especially those in Western Europe, while emerging markets, except Eastern European countries, have been less severely affected until recently. Third, not all types of flows have shown the same degree of resilience, resulting in a profound change in the composition of international financial flows: while banking flows, which used to account for the largest share of the total before 2008, have collapsed, foreign direct investment flows have been barely affected and now represent about half of global flows. Portfolio flows stand between these two extremes, and within them equity flows have proved more robust than debt flows. This should help to strengthen resilience and deliver genuine cross-border risk-sharing. Having highlighted these stylized facts, this chapter turns to possible explanations for and likely implications of these changes, regarding international financial stability issues.

Keywords: International Financial Flows; Bank Flows; Debt Flows; Great Retrenchment; Portfolio Flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-79075-6_13

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